3/1/2013-Hospital March Madness

Bob Englehart

I've been fortunate in all my professional working life that any malady I or a member of my family had has been covered by health insurance. Like most people, when I got a bill from the hospital, I didn't even look at it. Why do I care, right? The insurance company was paying for everything.

That was then; this is now. According to Steven Brill's article in Time magazine, it's time we started paying attention because hospital bills are killing us. Brill talks about his cover story here: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-inside-times-cover-story-on-medical-bills/

This all leads me to my central point. We need a single-payer health care system run by the government. Yeah, that's right, the end of the United States as we know it. Obamacare is a step in the right direction and I think that someday we'll stop dancing around the change, but it will come. It'll come after the dinosaurs that oppose it die off in say 20 to 40 years.

That same generation will repeal the Second Amendment, too. I wish I were going to be on Earth to see it, but I'll be gone by then, living in comfort somewhere on a planet that gets it.